{"id":18820,"date":"2012-01-10T06:02:17","date_gmt":"2012-01-10T11:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=18820"},"modified":"2012-01-10T06:02:45","modified_gmt":"2012-01-10T11:02:45","slug":"early-childhood-screenings-offered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2012\/01\/10\/early-childhood-screenings-offered\/","title":{"rendered":"Early Childhood screenings announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Van Wert independent\/<\/strong><em>Thomas Edison Center information<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Developmental screenings for children birth to age 5 will be offered to residents of the following school districts in Van Wert County: Crestview, Delphos, Lincolnview, Parkway, Spencerville and Wayne Trace.\u00a0 The screenings will be held at the Thomas Edison Early Childhood Center on Friday, February 17, and Friday, March 9.\u00a0 Screening hours are 8:30 a.m.-noon.\u00a0 Call Edison Early Childhood Center at 419.238.1514, extension 221, between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, to make appointments.<\/p>\n<p>Children will be assessed in the areas of height, weight, vision, hearing, language, cognition, gross and fine motor, self-help, and social-emotional skills. After the screening, the results will be shared with the parent or caregiver. This assessment provides families with an opportunity to see how a child is progressing in relationship to children of the same age.<\/p>\n<p>If a child displays an area of concern, further assessment will be scheduled at the parents\u2019 convenience. This additional visit will let the teacher check for this delay in a different play environment.\u00a0 If a child continues to show a delay at this time, the child will be invited to a play-based, multi-factored evaluation session at Thomas Edison Early Childhood Center.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact the Thomas Edison Early Childhood Center at the above telephone number.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert independent\/Thomas Edison Center information Developmental screenings for children birth to age 5 will be offered to residents of the following school districts in Van Wert County: Crestview, Delphos, Lincolnview, Parkway, Spencerville and Wayne Trace.\u00a0 The screenings will be held at the Thomas Edison Early Childhood Center on Friday, February 17, and Friday, March [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-03 07:32:27","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}